The whole thing about relationships and feelings confuses
the heck out of Calhoun. He’s a simple cowboy and he’d been planning to marry a
long-time friend for a while. When he finally realizes it doesn’t feel right,
he lets her go. He probably shouldn’t have gone to her wedding to another man,
but she wanted him there. But that’s when he really gets confused. His eye is
drawn to a seriously hot businessman…and that sure does unnerve him…and yet….Emotionally burned by the last man he thought he’d loved,
Daniel isn’t anxious to replace him. But there is something about the proud,
bedroom-eyed cowboy who shows up at his friend’s wedding. The CEO isn’t even
sure if the cowboy’s gay, although the heat firing between them makes him
wonder….

What he does know is that he plans to find out.

Book
Title:The
CEO and The Cowboy

Publisher: Decadent Publishing

Date
Published: July 7, 2012

Genre:
Contemporary, erotic romance, GLBT, gay romance

Heat
Rating: 4

Page
Count: 40

Narrated
by: Chase Johnson

Length: 1 hr and 25 mins

~~~~~

BLURB
– For Ruby's Love

Calhoun’s a simple cowboy with more
problems in his life than he can handle at the moment. After nearly two years,
he struggles to hang onto a relationship with Daniel, his first male lover.
Daniel is worried about him because of the fire, his concern for his prized
breeding mare, and because he is determined to buy the neighboring ranch to
expand. But Daniel isn’t a businessman without goals of his own for expansion,
a fact that frustrates Calhoun as well. He doesn’t want to lose Daniel, but
will their differences finally be too much?

Daniel considers himself a lucky man to
have met the rancher, someone almost his opposite and someone who he doesn’t
want to live without. Standing beside the moody Calhoun has been difficult
since the fire that burned down a horse barn, took the lives of two valuable
horses, and traumatized a favored mare. Along with all of that, his harried
friend is determined to expand his ranch holdings. Daniel is against the
purchase and would prefer to find a way to slow the man down. Lately, he’s also
begun worrying if maybe he isn’t enough to satisfy his lover’s needs.

Complicating everything even more, Ruby
shows up later than expected at Calhoun’s ranch to honor a job as a horse
therapist that her father had agreed to before his sudden death. She knows what
happened to the mare and is certain she can help her, if given the chance. But
the stubborn rancher can’t get past the idea of her being a woman, someone not
strong enough to work with such a damaged horse. They butt heads over the
matter until she finds an ally in Daniel. He is concerned and yet believes in
her abilities. Another problem arises, though. She and Calhoun have been
skirting around an unwanted attraction, and then she discovers another
surprising interest between her and Daniel.

“Want a tour?” He desperately wanted to get him up to his bedroom. He
wanted to strip

him out of that Western-cut suit, find out if he was a boxers or
briefs man. He was curious if

those pecs were as muscled as he suspected, if the abs were
six-packed. He longed to….

“Why did you really bring me here?”

Surprised, he stood quietly for several long seconds, debating how to
answer. Then he

decided actions might just be better than words at the moment. If he
had the nerve. Yes!

Yes, you do.

He moved directly in front of him, watched the man’s nostrils flare,
and his eyes widen.

But the cowboy didn’t step back, and he didn’t look ready to send a
fist into his face. Nerves

tangling in his stomach, he put his hands around Cordell’s neck and
leaned closer.

The big man tensed, but still didn’t tell him to back off. He didn’t
say a word, just stood

there looking wary, but determined. Clearly curious. Cautious, too.

Unable to resist any longer, he slanted his mouth over the tempting
lips. Fire seared him.

Need. Desperation.

Cordell stiffened even more, and he was pretty sure his cowboy had never
done this

before. He appeared uncomfortable, and his heart pounded so hard he
could feel it. Yet he

didn’t pull away.

Not wanting to frighten the man off, he gently slid his tongue along
the crease of those

lips until, finally, they opened. He had to have more, but he had to
go slowly.

Surprising him again, he felt Cordell put his arms around his waist,
pushing under his

suit coat, pulling him closer. God, yes!

Heat raged through him, and he felt the warmth of the body pressed
against his. Their

hearts thudded, chest against chest. Then the man
shuddered even as they tangled tongues.

ABOUT THE AUTHOR

Starla has been writing and publishing in
different romance sub-genres and lengths for twenty years. Her first published
book, Tug of Love, was a “sweet” romance published with iUniverse. Currently
she mainly writes edgier romances with an erotic or slightly naughty focus.

She enjoys writing about strong-willed,
independent women who butt heads with equally determined, self-confident, and
slightly domineering men. Her belief in relation to her heroes is to find them
their perfect match, but make him really work for the happily-for-now or
happily-ever-after with the woman who wins his heart. Of course, she likes her
heroines to be challenged as well. Love isn't easy.

To date she has published 20 novels, 38
novellas, 8 anthologies, and 18 short stories. Starla writes for Decadent
Publishing, Black Velvet Seductions, and Blushing Books.

About Me

Amber
Daulton lives her life by that one belief even though she normally isn’t so
Zen.

As a fan of contemporary, paranormal, and historical romance novels
alike, she can’t get enough of feisty heroines and alpha heroes. Her mind is a
wonderland of adventure, laughter, and awesome ways of kicking a guy when he’s
down. She probably wouldn’t be too sane without her computer and notebooks.
After all, what’s a girl to do when people are jabbering away in her head, and
it’s hard to shut them up? Write! Nothing else works.